A bit of backstory to this, I was terminated from my position about 2 months ago. I was the in charge of a small department that could barley keep employees around for more than 2 months at a time. There had been a manager change a few months before my termination, and the new manager did almost everything in their power to have me removed from my position. With my job position, i was supposed to train all the new staff members that we would be receiving, but she would never allow or schedule me to train them, always having someone with less experience do it, and whatever issues that she had with how they were trained was taken out on me. The person above her was absolutely useless whenever i brought up these issues, and it always seemed to get worse. Almost ever day for months at a time, she had some different issue with me, and even other employees were starting to notice that she obviously had ulterior motives to her actions. Around September we started having issues with another employee, she had begun to bully him as well, and i'd be called into her office almost daily and threatened that he would be terminated if i couldn't turn the situation around. I had brought this issue up with my equal, (there was a mens and womens side) and even she agreed that he was not at fault. Towards the end of my time with this company, we brought on a new team member who came highly recommended from a sister location, but it turned out that he was next to useless, as when left alone he would do no work, and the workzone would be trashed. He received all of the praise for others work, however. Following this, my set schedule that i as the one in charge was supposed to have was changed,i would be opening the location instead of coming in early afternoon and overseeing operations until night. This lasted 3 months, until we hired on an extra employee, which i was actually allowed to train. On his first day i had asked him what position he had applied for, just to make small talk while i was showing him proper procedure, and he told me that he was getting my job. I brushed it off and continue to train him until i decided to inquire with my manager two days later. She went on a tangent for about twenty minutes about how all the staff that was on my side was inept at doing their job,even though she had only hired on 2 people, and not a single person in the building had any issues with how my staff performed their duties when the old manager was in charge. She even began to insult one of my staff members, referring to him as human garbage, an absolute disgrace to the team. Again, no one had any issues with this employee, ever. I had gone to HR about this meeting to file a complaint, as was outlined in our handbook. And the next day,instead of investigating it, they had emailed her a copy of my complaint and i was terminated. I was not allowed a copy of the paper that i signed( although im not sure if employers have to give you a copy of it) and i was then escorted out of the building. Since then i have had the absolute worst luck with finding a new job. I have had about 15 or so interviews, all of which the interviewers have said i am more than qualified for the position, but i never hear back from any of them afterwards. Whenever a potential employer calls my former place of work, it seems to derail the process entirely. When i had first started there, almost all of the employees there, as well as my first manager, used to talk about how if you are fired, the company makes it incredibly difficult for you to move on and get a new job. That they would say anything to keep you from being hired. I kept in touch with one of the men i trained from before the new woman took over, he had quit earlier due to what had happened to me first happened to him,and he told me that it had taken him almost 6 months to get a new job, and that the company would do nothing but bad mouth him as an employee. I speak with one of my former staff members weekly, and he even says it himself, that i am brought up almost daily by the management, by people who never had any issues with me before this woman took over. I'm the running joke in the office space now. I should have no reason to believe this nonsense, but unfortunately i do a little. I had tried to receive unemployment but the management had lied about my reason for termination. At this point, i don't know what i am supposed to do. I feel i was pushed out of a very good job because my manager refused to ever take me seriously because i was young. I'm not sure what i can do.